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Artist:Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
Date:ca. 1654
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:39 3/8 x 36 1/8 in. (100 x 91.8 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Archer M. Huntington, in memory of his father, Collis Potter Huntington, 1926
Accession Number:26.101.10
Unlike many of his ambitious contemporaries, Rembrandt never traveled to Italy. Nonetheless, Italian art had a profound effect upon him; in this depiction of the Roman goddess of spring, he responded to the work of Titian in particular. The somber coloration and rough paint handling make this painting unmistakably Rembrandt’s own, and the goddess may be based in part on a portrait of the artist’s deceased wife, Saskia, who had been the muse and inspiration for many of his paintings.
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